Pain’s Wake up Call
This morning pain woke me up.
I didn’t reject pain’s wake up call.
I said,”Let’s talk, I want to hear
what you have to say. I want to know
who you are.”
We sat in silence face to face, eye to eye.
Neither of us blinked. Soon, there was no pain,
no I. Just a sensation floating in space.
It wasn’t bad, it wasn’t good. It was, and then,
gently, it was not. The void was alone. That’s all.
Pete
Hunting the Void 
December 20, 2011 at 8:37 pm
beautiful…
December 23, 2011 at 5:12 pm
Everything of yours I’ve read, here and on Nonduality Highlights, goes straight to the heart of our nature. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
December 24, 2011 at 4:09 pm
You are very welcome, Gail, thank you
for your kind words.
August 3, 2013 at 4:27 pm
Your lovely verse delineates my “problem” more eloquently than I ever have or could. I’m delighted to have discovered your site.
Feeling Understood,
Don
August 4, 2013 at 6:27 pm
Great technique that works to turn ‘pain’ down to unrecognizable. This was the first of your writings I have read and I will certainly read more.
August 16, 2013 at 7:54 pm
I think grief is like that too. The only way through it is to welcome it in.
November 28, 2013 at 10:24 pm
I love this Pete. Last Sunday I was in Westminster Abbey (big trip for a Northern lad like me) You were on my mind a lot of the time; Don’t know why, you just were. I lit a candle and thought of you; we’ve never even met – but that was no reason not to. Best wishes John
November 29, 2013 at 7:15 pm
Good wishes always have an effect, more often
to the benefit of the well-wisher, yet it’s
always nice to hear someone wishes us well.
Thanks.
Pete
November 30, 2013 at 12:55 pm
Yes – I like that: the ‘Wisher’ and the ‘Wished for’ come together in the wishing. Best, J.